Methyl 2-phenyl-4-quinolinecarboxylate → 1-(2-Phenylquinolin-4-yl)ethanone

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To methyl 2-phenyl-4-quinolinecarboxylate (1 g, 3.80 mmol) in 10 ml ether, at 0° C. was added MeLi (1.4M, 3.0 ml, 4.1 mmol) dropwise over a five minute period. The reaction mixture was stirred at 0° C. for 30 minutes and quenched by the addition of 10 ml of water. The ether layer was separated, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, concentrated and purified (hexane:EtOAc; 4.5:0.5) to give 0.233 g (23%) of the product as a syrup which was used as such for the subsequent step.

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